Quote by Randall Reneau

“Yes, peasants,” he repeated slowly. “The lowliest of the low among humans.” Then he enunciated, “Exceedingly backward and vulgar hillbillies.” “Been called worse, mister.”…

— Kresley Cole

“These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does. Time was when a car company made cars, a…

— Michel Faber

“My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“That’s the way mining is. You always find a way to cheat fate,” he says. “That’s what’s beautiful about being a miner: Supernatural things…

— Héctor Tobar

“Little did you know that the metals in that lawnmower, came from a factory, that had polluted an entire township and killed 25 people…

— Lee Vickers

“Because it’s Appalachia. The coal companies are destroying our mountains, towns, culture, and lives, and it’s not a story.”

— John Grisham

“Instead, as is already happening to some degree, organized-crime families will turn toward legitimate operations.”

— Gerard K. O'Neill

“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?”

— James Clavell

The coal miners are working. But there's more than just coal miners in West Virginia.

— Richard Ojeda

“Farming is backbreaking work, but at least it is honest labor. This killing isn’t honest. It is thievery… the thievery of men’s lives, and…

— Christopher Paolini

“They scolded working mothers who were damaging their poor kids by their need to make a living.”

— Victor LaValle